12 Facts About Job Shattuck

Job Shattuck was an American military officer and landowner who served during the Seven Years' War and the American Revolutionary War.

Job Shattuck first served with the Massachusetts Militia in the 1755 Battle of Fort Beausejour.

Job Shattuck was later active at the Siege of Boston in 1776 and then in preparing defenses at Mt.

Job Shattuck was arrested in late 1786 on charges of treason, but was pardoned in 1787 by Governor John Hancock.

Job Shattuck was born in the rural central Massachusetts town of Groton in 1736, not long after the final Indian raids and skirmishes that had so often embattled the town during its early colonial period.

Job Shattuck's family occupied a large tract of land in the northwest corner of town, much of the acreage fronting the banks of the Nashua River.

At the age of 19, Job Shattuck joined the Massachusetts Militia as a private in Captain Ephraim Jones's company and took part in the expulsion of the Acadians from Nova Scotia in 1755.

Job Shattuck was part of a company of men that went to Boston in the fall of 1775 for a six-week period to provide necessary backup as Washington put the Continental Army into place.

Job Shattuck returned to Groton, but then went back to Boston to participate in the siege.

Job Shattuck was promoted to the rank of captain by the provincial congress in 1776 and was elected town selectman of Groton on three occasions during the war.

Job Shattuck nearly lost his right leg when a cadet slashed it with a sword just above the knee.

Job Shattuck was transported from Groton to Concord and then to Boston and placed into a debtors' cell at the town jail.